> Perhaps ChuckO can explain what the strategy and objectives of the Black Bloc is then, if I've got it all wrong?
The strategy of the black bloc is, quite simply, to provide solidarity and mutual aid on the the streets for radical protesters, most often anarchists. When the police attack demonstrators simply for exercising their basic rights and otherwise make efforts to outlaw forms of dissent, the black bloc is a group statement of solidarity for dissent and against repressive police tactics.
The objectives of the black bloc are partially reflected in what I just explained, but different black blocs have different objectives in addition to doing direct action for the right to dissent. Black blocs typically have some kind of statement or call which explains the objectives of each black bloc. Black blocs also exist to promote more militant tactics and attitude.
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